Skill Builder -- Ages 6 to 8

These formative years are an exciting time. Your child will become increasingly proficient in every area of basic skills such as reading and counting, and will build on those skills by adding new information to her curriculum. You can help to develop her abilities by practising these activities:

Listening Skills
Develop your child's aptitude to listen and understand with these fun activities.

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The ABC Game
Beautiful Mix-Up
Capital Concentration
Cause and Effect Toss
Comparisons
Dare to Do It
Mystery Phrases
Occupations
Picture Puzzles
Radio Show
Stump the Leader
The Rhyming Book
The Rhyming Game
Who's that Talking?

Maths Skills

Advance your child's ability to measure, sort and count with these educational yet entertaining activities.

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Balance-Scale Measuring
Bet You Can't
Cube Calendar
Egg Carton Multiplication
Estimation Centre
Marble Probability
Measuring Wheel
Measuring with String
Median Line-up
Money Cubes
My Own Number Chart
Playing Shops
Silent Maths Practice
Silent Numbers
Sorting Dots
Wallpaper Pattern Cards

Reading Skills
Foster your child's love of reading with these exercises.

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B and D 'Concentration'
Bean Sounds
Big Initials
Home Office Centre
Vowel Charades

Motor Skills Help
Build your child's hand-eye co-ordination, balance and other abilities with these fun exercises.

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Architect's Delight
Bead Puzzle
Clay Crusher
Ceiling Tile Maze
Finger Balance
Funny Face
Ladybird Race
Marble Run
Ring Toss
Wool Ball Toss

Science Fun
Expand your child's curiosity about nature and the world she lives in with these creative activities.

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After Images
Kaleidoscope
Light Reflectors
Magnets
Merry-Go-Round
Nature Thaumatrope
Paper Cup Projector
Plant Cuttings
Root View Planter
Sand Maps
Science Categories
Simple Balance
Sorting Machine
Sound Machine
Spicy Sprouts
Stargazer
Sundial
Waterwheel